Obesity by state, how does your rank?

[FL-Orange]

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State Obesity Rates for Adults

1. Mississippi 33.8%
2. Alabama 31.6%
3. Tennessee 31.6%
4. West Virginia 31.3%
5. Louisiana 31.2%
6. Oklahoma 30.6%
7. Kentucky 30.5%
8. Arkansas 30.1%
9. South Carolina 29.9%
10. North Carolina 29.4%
10. Michigan 29.4%
12. Missouri 29.3%
13. Ohio 29.0%
13. Texas 29.0%
15. South Dakota 28.5%
16. Kansas 28.2%
17. Pennsylvania 28.1%
17. Georgia 28.1%
17. Indiana 28.1%
20. Delaware 27.9%
21. North Dakota 27.7%
22. Iowa 27.6%
23. Nebraska 27.3%
24. Alaska 26.9%
24. Wisconsin 26.9%
26. Illinois 26.6%
26. Maryland 26.6%
28. Washington 26.3%
29. Maine 25.8%
29. Arizona 25.8%
31. Nevada 25.6%
32. Virginia 25.5%
32. Minnesota 25.5%
32. New Mexico 25.5%
35. New Hampshire 25.4%
36. New York 25.1%
36. Florida 25.1%
36. Idaho 25.1%
39. Oregon 25.0%
39. Wyoming 25.0%
41. California 24.4%
42. New Jersey 23.9%
43. Montana 23.5%
44. Utah 23.2%
45. Rhode Island 22.9%
46. Vermont 22.8%
47. Hawaii 22.6%
48. Massachusetts 21.7%
49. D.C. 21.5%
50. Connecticut 21.4%
51. Colorado 19.1%

I guess Florida, at 25.1%, isn't too bad considering the amount of retired people. :shrug:

 

[ff500]

I'm surprised Ma is way down on the list. I was at the beach a few weeks ago and it seemed everyone was so out of shape and needed to lose a few pounds, including myself.

 

[Koncept]

When the hell did D.C. become a state?

 

[astrodudepsu]

I can't believe the minimum is only 19.1%.

Hell the difference between the top and the bottom isn't all that big, so this list doesn't mean a whole lot statistically.

 

[pho_phizzat]

Mountain states are all low on the list, I am thinking there must be a direct correlation between the obesity rate and the number of wafflehouses

 

[CBrowning84]

I can't believe the minimum is only 19.1%.

Hell the difference between the top and the bottom isn't all that big, so this list doesn't mean a whole lot statistically.

+1 I wonder what the statistics are by country.

 

[Sonic605hp]

36th. People are gross. Get off your fat ass. I find it absolutely amazing that 25% of the people in my state feel it's ok to be a disgusting slob.

 

[03 TOPLESSSVT]

2'nd best state here

 

[stangin99]

2'nd best state here

I'll drink to that......oh wait

 

[usmcrebel]

#1 and 2 **** yeah!

 

[vertcobra99]

The thing that you have to realize is that the BMI calculation that consideres people Obease is completely irrevelant because it doesn't take bone mass and muscle mass into consideration when doing this calculation.

I am considered obease... I am 6'2" 255 lbs... but most of my weight is muscle. I lift weights 6 times a week and do cardio 3-4 times in the morning each week. my body fat percentage is around 9% but yet I am still considered obease. They need to come up with a better way to measure obeasity because right now pretty much everyone in the NFL is obease.

By the BMI standards I would have to weigh 190 lbs to be considered normal weight... which is rediculous I would be skin and bones at that weight.

 

[N2DAMYSTIC]

From this I take that the majority of Rednecks are fat

 

[bit]

The thing that you have to realize is that the BMI calculation that consideres people Obease is completely irrevelant because it doesn't take bone mass and muscle mass into consideration when doing this calculation.

I am considered obease... I am 6'2" 255 lbs... but most of my weight is muscle. I lift weights 6 times a week and do cardio 3-4 times in the morning each week. my body fat percentage is around 9% but yet I am still considered obease. They need to come up with a better way to measure obeasity because right now pretty much everyone in the NFL is obease.

By the BMI standards I would have to weigh 190 lbs to be considered normal weight... which is rediculous I would be skin and bones at that weight.

Bingo! You have to be comopletely retarded to use BMI with all the other methods at our disposal today. I stop listening when I here BMI being talked about.

That being said. NC is number 10 on the list. I am not really surprized by that.

 

[ttk53]

The thing that you have to realize is that the BMI calculation that consideres people Obease is completely irrevelant because it doesn't take bone mass and muscle mass into consideration when doing this calculation.

I am considered obease... I am 6'2" 255 lbs... but most of my weight is muscle. I lift weights 6 times a week and do cardio 3-4 times in the morning each week. my body fat percentage is around 9% but yet I am still considered obease. They need to come up with a better way to measure obeasity because right now pretty much everyone in the NFL is obease.

By the BMI standards I would have to weigh 190 lbs to be considered normal weight... which is rediculous I would be skin and bones at that weight.

+1 but after a shoulder surgery I do need to get back in shape.

 

[oldmodman]

California.

#41:shrug:

I better eat more Pizza. We can get higher on the list than that.

 

[snake134]

damn 30%
this country needs an overhaul....or a tummy tuck

 

[mnewxcv]

I'm surprised Ma is way down on the list. I was at the beach a few weeks ago and it seemed everyone was so out of shape and needed to lose a few pounds, including myself.

i was thinking the same thing.

 

[thomas91169]

damn you fat ****s in Mississippi.

 

[usmcrebel]

damn you fat ****s in Mississippi.

lol...:beer:

fatter states have better food!

 

[philip]

32. New Mexico 25.5%